Accidental death of an anarchist

In its first two years of production in Italy, Dario Fos notorious Accidental Death of an Anarchist was seen by over half a million people.

It has since been performed all over the world, and become a classic of twentieth-century drama.

A sharp and hilarious satire on police corruption, it concerns the case of an anarchist railway worker who, in 1969, fell to his death from a police headquarters window.

I ought to warn you that the author of this sick little play, Dario Fo, has the traditional, irrational hatred of the police common to all narrowminded left-wingers and so I shall, no doubt, be the unwilling butt of endless anti-authoritarian jibes.

(Inspector Bertozzo, Central Italian Police HQ) A marvellous concept: a zany political farce.

(Michael Billington) This edition has been adapted by Gavin Richards from Gillian Hannas translation and features an introduction by Stuart Hood and a preface by Dario Fo.